Global surface temperature is the average temperature of the Earth’s surface at a given time. It is a combination of the near ...

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

Scientists calculate that last year was the third-hottest on record, following 2024 and 2023. Several climate monitoring ...

"Atmospheric greenhouse gases have steadily increased over the last 10 years." ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year's ...

This week saw the hottest global temperature ever recorded, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. On Monday, the average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees ...

The Arctic is warming approximately three times faster than the global mean, a phenomenon termed Arctic Amplification. 8 times faster than the global average since the late 1970s. 20°C above the ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

The average surface air temperature was 55.81 degrees Fahrenheit. It may have been a frigid January for much of the U.S., but that didn't stop the planet from breaking another temperature record.

The last three years were Earth's hottest on record, as humanity's carbon emissions continue to heat the planet.